Word: failings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There are schools where these defects are nearly absent. These are the best schools in consequence, but the best school will fail to make much of any one who will not try to improve for his own good. This is a trite saying, but we too often pay trifling attention to trite truths. The plan suggested in the Nation - that of the English system of University diplomas for successful candidates - would do some good certainly, but how great in America is questionable. That some change is needed is clear. The Universities and Colleges have been steadily raising the standard...
...rightly judge of execution. The thought and feeling expressed in art, however, are common to mankind, and only differ in degree and quality as a larger or smaller sum of the best human faculties have been called into exercise. Remembering this, we do not see how any one can fail to be delighted with No. 7, the head by Velasquez, from its color, still beautiful, and its simple, manly treatment; though not in Velasquez's best style, perhaps, it far exceeds in value for study the other pictures there. Of the other two pictures, Nos. 8 and 9, to which...
...only as they lead to truth with which it is familiar. But among the modern ways of studying and regarding the world, the soul feels itself a stranger. Some, to remedy this, make thought a property of matte; others, matter but a mode of force or will; both parties fail in their end, because the opposites to be harmonized are not mind and matter, but the "wholes amid which alone the spirit feels at home, and the atoms or points with which science has to do." It is only by an honest synthesis in our minds of the results...
...their power and dramatic fervour, while nowhere does he pass the line that divides tragedy from absurdity. This is his chief merit. He plays throughout with a freedom from over-acting that is as welcome as it is uncommon, yet he is never tame, nor does he anywhere fail to do justice to his conception. If consistency and evenness are all that is wanted, his impersonation is the best, in so far as it is the most "perfect piece of acting." But with those who look for the highest and noblest conception, and who are willing to accept it, though...
...prone to decry their own institutions, have attacked the present arrangements so vigorously that a royal commission was appointed, a short time ago, to examine the condition of the Universities, and recommend whatever changes they might deem advisable. Surely, if those customs which have existed almost from time immemorial, fail when they are on their native heath, they cannot but do likewise if transplanted to a new soil. It must seem strange to a disinterested person that a dying system should be the subject of study; such a person would certainly say that the object of the President's visit...